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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Remember this View

Remember this view,in Verdun. We grew up with clotheslines ( a rare thing to see today)

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Sure do every Monday rain or shine the wash must get done. When you came home from school the wringer washer was at the kitchen sink and the sink was full of clothes.One clothesline was coming in and another ready to go but in the mess of clothes all over dinner was always ready on the table.

Remember it well. Even the card hanging on the back gallery. Each side had a different price. 15 cents on one side for a small block, and 30 cents for a bigger block. We would watch when the iceman went up the stairs to deliver the ice, and would run over to tha back of his cart to grab a small chunk to put in out mouths and run like crazy. Of course my mother would yell at us to stop taking that ice, otherwise we might get trench mouth....

Never thought where that ice came from ! The St Lawrence was a dumping ground for everything. Mothers were so smart and we should have listened to them more often but as a kid who knew they were so smart.

Going up the Laurentian highway going up towards Val David/Ste Agathe on the right hand side during the summer, there use to be a huge mountain made out of sawdust. It was humungous. They started in the winter getting ice from places like Golden Lake in Val David and storing it there covered in sawdust, and during the summer would gradually remove layer upon layer of this sawdust to uncover the ice. They would then load it on trucks and take it into the city to sell to all the customers. This was before refridgeration. Anyone remember that sawdust pile?